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Botnet maps the entire internet
This is a good idea; anything that makes it easier for Ubuntu users to support the distro financially, and thus help keep it moving forward, is a Good Thing.

That being said, I'm extremely skeptical that donations will ever amount to a large enough amount to support Ubuntu all by themselves, or even to come close to doing so. They cite as inspiration the example of the Humble Bundles, but in those you get something in exchange for your money -- the bundle of software. There's nothing comparable here, it's just a straight donation, so use of it will probably be low at best.
Agree that better measurement processes need to be in place for government IT projects. At least your post realizes that the government is to blame as much (if not more) as the contractors (and thus the people are truly to blame for electing leaders who allow this to go on under their noses).
It doesn't. Which is why you can use it in the completely broken manner you did.
> EVERYONE is selling your personal data.

FTFY
Just so everyone knows, AT&T does the same thing. You have 30 days from the date of your contract before they start passing it out, but I believe you can opt out of future transactions on the site. Try going to http://att.com/ecpnioptout (if you got a new contract with your iPhone 5, do it this week!)

Edit: I should say, AT&T does something similar. I do not know if it is the same thing, since their opt-out page makes it sound rather innocuous compared to the vague language used in the mailed letter. CPNI = Customer Proprietary Network Information
In Sweden, while books aren't free, they have a much lower sales tax than most products and services.
Bytecode really is nothing more than just a compressed source encoding of some language.

I was with you until you said "compressed".

There are plenty of examples where the bytecode representation is bigger than the original source files.
I would prefer if they would tie their pricing to the size of a repository or the number of collaborators, but not the number of repos. I have a paid account that I would like to dump a lot of old projects that I hardly ever change. I would have to upgrade to "large" and even that one wouldn't fit all the projects. Right now the solution is to either not host it with them or use something like Bitbucket.
(I meant 99%, not 999%)
I would argue it hurts after the cheating, though possibly not precisely when it occurs. Later courses, things that build on what was cheated, that kind of thing. Time (and money, and happiness) must be spent to deal with people who aren't prepared, degrading the quality of what the legitimate ones receive, and the educator's time.
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Where is this "1 collaborator limit"? GitHub has unlimited collaborators on all repositories, private or public.
Rescind patents for software? Should happen. Won't happen, unfortunately. There's not enough political will, because there is not enough understanding of the principle here.

It's inexorable: Barbaric modes of thought practiced generally lead to barbaric laws.
Agreed. Paypal is flat out painful. But they certainly have a huge advantage when it comes to international payment processing.
Tried to change settings and got an error. Quelle surprise.
Yea, I agree - if you are accepting payments from non-developers it's probably going to damage your conversion rate. Having an option for a "Powered by Stripe" logo would probably be a better way to build brand awareness.

This will probably confuse consumers until Stripe has the brand awareness of Paypal.
I'd love to hear the security implications of the button. Seems to me that someone could easily replicate this and trick users into entering their credit card number. Am I wrong? Are there any other avenues of attack? I have an idea about something similar but since I'm no security expert, I'd love to hear what more experienced hackers think.
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> What kind of user is it going to focus on?

From the website:

> End-User Focus: to ensure our work is useful to all people. [the emphasis is mine]

Does somebody else have a problem with the idea of focusing in being helpful to all people? Is this supposedly opposed to "Developer-Focused" or something like that?
Radio telephones were invented in the 40's. Even in the late 80's cell phones were nothing like communicators.

Now, in most places on earth, I can tap my phone and say a name and get the person on the line.

I am very optimistic. I'm tired of the dystopian naysaying that seems to be so popular these days. The future is full of win.
I'm on Chrome v22.0.1229.92 on W7 and am still seeing the issues described above while viewing the blog article.
Check out iTranslate on iOS if you haven't seen it. Voice-to-voice translation between dozens of languages.
Your format implies more formality than a normal conversation - I assumed you meant it in terms of an interview too, and if not that, I'm not sure what you were aiming for. I don't see conversations like that outside technical interviews.
No, Dammit, This Is Not The iPad Mini
IAmA - Kevin O' Connor, co-founder and former CEO of DoubleClick
I am a bit confused at your statement..."little they can buy for it". Your post highlights lots of technology that is being used, just perhaps it is either not necessary or the wrong use of force. Two very different statements.

I think your comment was meant to say and back up two different opinions...that defense spending is not efficient due to lack of market forces, corruption among procurement and military personnel, and overall government overhead costs and regulations. The second point is that our military directions and missions are misguided. We are not making the correct trade off analysis for our wars and methods of warfare (e.g. trading precision of human operations and saving US soldiers lives vs. the inaccuracies of drone missions while saving US lives OR should we even do the missions in the first place).
Even when the brand is as big as PayPal, I think that the OP's point stands. When you "Pay with PayPal," you are generally using your PayPal account. You don't need a Stripe account to pay, so you're not paying "with Stripe." PayPal is the system, Stripe is an implementation detail.
No, you GOTO 1, and write new tests that match better. Just because you have a dysfunctional organization that doesn't let QA and development talk doesn't mean that's how it has to be.
Read what I wrote. I make no claims about my ability - I'm a far better hacker than I was a driver or the goodness or taxis in general.

Like I said, I can totally believe Lyft is better than taxi services now. But the thing about any purely private system is that everything they do is going to ultimately be a cost-benefit trade to them and everyone in the equation is going to be trying to figure out new ways of making money. Look at email, look at craiglist, look at AirBnb. The large large scale produces problems unlike small scale. If someone comes up with X scam that lets them profit from Lyft or whoever in a dangerous way, will Lyft be spending it's entire margin tracking that problem down. Maybe.

The only thing about government regulation is that the state has authority to be more invasive than a private entity can be and is not limited by a cost benefit analysis. Government regulation is inefficient but unfortunately haven't yet demonstrated an iron clad better way to make sure things like commercial driving, electrical and other infrastructure work remain safe. It's problematic but it would also be problematic to do a large experiment with the physical safety of people.
Why differentiate plugins? What makes a VM with JIT not a plugin save the browser vendor shipping it with the browser?

Why wouldn't other browsers have Pepper?

Compilers are as good as what they've been tuned for. In my view PNaCl's shortcoming is startup time because it lacks a JIT and LLVM's back end is too slow for now. Speed up the backend or JIT code and you'll get close to GCC performance while being portable and somewhat language agnostic.

Yes I have seen pepper, and most of the interface relates to the GPU. How is sunk cost better, when a big part of the API can be backed by what canvas relies on?

You would consider adopting PNaCl and pepper in FF if there were games that targeted them? If the code were contributed to Mozilla?

What do you mean by "more native code"? Can't view source?

I appreciate the answers.
Not for the lucky Verizon customers who happen to catch this.
Cookies are only sent for the domain involved in the request, so only stripe.com cookies would be sent to Stripe, not any cookies for the domain hosting this button.
Looks great. I can only imagine that this is the first step towards allowing users to store their credit card information securely with Stripe and not have to pass it through every merchant site. I can't wait until the day that Stripe's ease of use for developers meets (and exceeds) Paypal's ease of use for customers.
Which extension are your referencing. I'm currently using Page Saver but previously used Awesome Screenshot Plus until they started intercepting pages and spamming adverts to them by default. Having it in-browser is good.

Also I've not seen a screenshot tool that allowed an id to be specified before as someone said this will/does.
If you have a HiDPI display (ips or retina mac), Jonathon Kew's patchset to add this feature to Firefox has landed in the Aurora branch.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...

There are 18a2 builds in there, I'm using it now! However, I haven't seen it mentioned on the main aurora release page, so proceed with caution.
Calling it: the Federal Circuit will find out that yes, everything is patentable. The Federal Circuit is a court of patent lawyers, for patent lawyers.
You can walk over to someone else's cubicle can't you?
Off-topic: if you like kubrick's movies, do yourself a favor and watch this documentary right now: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0278736/

It's exceptionally great. Kubrick himself would've been proud of it. I really can't recommend it enough. For me, it's almost Kubrick's 10th movie (not counting Spartacus, The Killing, Killer's Kiss and Fear & Desire, of course) - that's how great it is.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNuzGlLqxNU
Security flaw in 3G could allow anyone to track your smartphone
I used JIRA too. While I don't hate it, it wouldn't be my first choice.

What is changing in 6 months?
We are investigating. Thanks for reporting.
Let me get this straight, you want a Stripe cookie that remembers a user's payment information across unrelated websites?
We are working on making the text customizable right now. The button is still a bit of an experiment, so we're taking in feedback and iterating.
Hi, I'm the developer behind the button

Yes, I absolutely agree. We're redesigning that part of the button, and allowing people to specify various options, such as 'Pay', 'Add Card', 'Checkout' etc.
They're DRM free ebooks so you can just load them. shrug
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Another writer who reports adverse effects from the critical / judgmental / negative thinking required to create good software:

http://telepatch.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-being-latency-monk...
5 days of insanity in a social media startup
I see several comments on this submission relate the issue of cheating in a Coursera course to the issue of presenting a false credential to an employer when seeking a job. People seeking jobs as programmers had better be ready to do a programming sample under conditions controlled by the hiring company to prevent cheating. The reason to be ready for that is that work-sample tests are the best validated procedure for hiring workers for jobs in general, and any company that takes a scientific approach to hiring will make work-sample tests a big part of its hiring procedures.

The long story about why companies should use work-sample tests to hire job applicants, including programmers, can be found in the online FAQ I post from time to time here on HN, last posted five days ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613543

Of course, because some (many?) people cheat, work-sample tests work best if the companies using them make sure that cheating is not possible during the test. If you want to get a job at a company that doesn't hire cheats or fakers, be ready to show what you know in a work-sample test.
Yes, like Facebook Connect. This would in fact be more secure than the current solution.
Also, check out how long Verizon stores your data:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/cellular-customer-d...
Why don't you answer them in this forum, where others can read?

EDIT: I speculate that he wants to answer privately, because he will say something negative about competitors. I think that's a bad practice - if you are willing to email a user a statement, you should be willing to make it in public.
For the First Time, BitTorrent Evidence Will be Tested in Court
A Conversation with bfeld on Startup Communities in Toronto - Oct 30, 2012
If Firefox had a GUI that didn't rely on the window manager's decorations (a la chrome), I would switch in a heartbeat.

As it stands, using Firefox on Linux (Openbox) feels like a huge step back from Chrome.
As a reference, Firefox 9 is the version in the packages repo for FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE and it's probably the same for a fair number of other oses that peg versions on release.
Capacitive touch that detects multiple users through their fingertips (video)
I agree with you if the button is standing alone, but if its a "Pay with Stripe" button alongside a Paypal and Google Checkout button then I think it adds more street cred than is taken away.
It's been a year actually, but ye I imagine that had something to do with it as well.
Hey, I know the telepatch guys.
I'm guessing they'll take this opportunity to somehow find a way to extend it even further. Perhaps that Velvin fellow was onto something with regards to prior art being required to run on the same CPU to be considered valid?
I made a 'search engine' for fun
This was a weekend project for fun. The problem I had was I felt like existing search engines were too cluttered and I couldn't easily sort results by websites.

I experimented and rather than returning so many results, it returns the results from a few number of websites and tries to rank in on a confidence level from that smaller subset.
Maybe has something to do with this: https://stripe.com/blog/stripejs-and-jsonp (they mention JSONP only supporting GET requests)?
Ah! Twas looking under my account, has no such link... Thanks for your help!
Howdy. Thanks for not minifying the JS[1].

When it comes to payment-related code, I wouldn't even consider it an option for my shop w/o reviewing it. Was that by design or will it be minified in the future?

[1]: https://button.stripe.com/v1/button.js
The technical advantage is getting around the same-origin policy by using JSONP (which by its nature can only be used with GET requests for the script).
> Looks like Stash is what they sell to enterprises, versus BitBucket which is hosted. Anyone know if these are completely separate products, or if they share a common codebase?

Two separate codebases. Bitbucket is running on a Python stack (Django) and Stash is built on a Java stack (traditional Atlassian stack). Stash can be extended through plugins (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/app/stash/popular?...)
Well, I personally agree with you, but my significant other likes to view social network content through it in certain circumstances, particularly at the end of the day after getting in bed. But that's the saving grace of Flipboard; it's there if you want it, but it's not forced onto anything.
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Not a very interesting graphic with obvious deficiencies (e.g. not comparing defense spending to GDP).

Why do we spend money on Defense? The first answer would be to protect stuff we have (hence my compare against GDP example above) but that would be incomplete. The real value is in protecting the system that generates that value. Think of it in terms of a company. A companies value is in the system for generating additional value and is the reason why companies are bought or traded at multiples of their current earnings. Sometime extreme multiples for fast growth, high potential companies. If you look at the US as a value producing entity (which most folks do and still do contrary to most news articles on US brain drain) we probably trade at a pretty high multiple of our current GDP. Comparing are Defense spending in that light will make our spending seem like a pretty good deal.

That said, we clearly have reform and efficiencies to pursue in the defense sector.
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Ask HN: Best practices when working with teams
I work with web development for almost 10 years and I have always worked by myself. Now I have to manage a team of developers and I have no idea how to do it. In my head I already have everything solved, how the code should be done and so on... I don't know if I should tell everyone how things should be done (according with what I already have solved in my mind) or if I should let the team decide those things.

Another question is that I have always worked from the top down, I mean, I always implement the UI and work my way down from there. Now I need to separate concerns and I'm not so sure how that could be done efficiently.

I know that there are really smart guys here and I would greatly benefit from your advice. Thanks!
Your first point is confusing to me. How are games, movies, tv shows, music, etc any less culture than books?
What are those acronyms developers like to use? rtfm, utsl, etc.? :)

There is a link to the court rules in the article. This is the definitive source, besides knowing clerks personally.

There is some cynicism in this thread about whether this rehearing will amount to anything but I think this shows the system is definitely aware of what the media is saying about software patents, and what you are saying in online forums. Does the USPTO read stackexchange? I think we all know the answer to that.

You have the right idea. Make your voice heard.
I want to second this comment. I spent my high school, and college years programming stupid shit and I had fun, but if I could go back I'd slap myself and learn some basic social skills and just be a kid. My social circle now days consists of senior programmers, managers, and BA's twice my age. You have your whole life to build up wealth, but I really feel I missed the boat by not building up some really good friendships during my school years.

TL;DR

Lasting happiness is having social skills and quality relationships; not an advanced software developer skill set.
"Option"? IMO this should be illegal, but i'm sure there is some clause in the contract which allows such use.
Still seems like a bad idea to use GET, though- those URLs often appear in logs. POST bodies do not.
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By that measure, isn't working putting your time at risk? After all, the company could collapse and go under any day, or, more likely, just lay you off any day!

(I realize that equity instruments are far riskier than working, but debt instruments really aren't. With a bond or loan, the company owes you the money either way, just as it does when working for salary.)

I see no reason that realized capital gains shouldn't just be treated as Yet Another Source of Income.
5 courses for a new curriculum
Shopify sells 1 billion worth of products
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Sadly I think there is way too much money invested in
software patents now for any substantial changes to be made in the system. The ship for software patent reform set sail about 10 years ago.
you should check out Readmill: http://readmill.com

It's quickly become my favorite book-reading app on the iPad, and their webapp is pretty awesome too. You can load any unprotected EPUB.
CVE-2012-4501 : Critical vulnerability warned in Cloudstack
Yes, I remember the latency problems with the old Master/Slave datastore. However, Google rolled out the High Replication Datastore almost two years ago and the M/S option has since been deprecated. The HRD has had an excellent track record; nobody complains about the datastore anymore. It's actually pretty remarkable how much appengine has evolved in the last few years, especially compared to other PaaS offerings.

When things go wrong (and they still occasionally do - on every platform), I'm one of the more vocal critics on the GAE mailing list. However, the zero-ops promise has held up pretty well. There's always something to complain about, but isn't it.

Also, that last statement is a little puzzling. GAE already handles tens of millions of users (probably considerably more) in shared infrastructure. The typical bottleneck (the database) isn't an issue because the database is already federated across every app in the system; you don't have to scale dedicated resources.
Offtopic: This is the first time I'm seeing a post "on" app.net and not "about" app.net
Week 1 of 500 Startups
The shortcut to bring it up (fn+shift+f2) is pretty unwieldy on the Mac keyboard.

Anyone have any idea on how to change the shortcut? No luck in about:config.
On an unrelated note, that site uses SPDY (looks like it's on app engine or apps for your domain).
definitely. hobbyists tend to run to "lots of small repos with low activity on any given one", but the net resource usage is the same as or lower than "a few big repos". per-repo pricing is more a "pay not to be inconvenienced" than "pay for your use of our resources" thing.
I do like how it's illegal to sell a person video rental history, but totally fine to sell information that shows everywhere they are at anytime of the day.
This isn't about Windows 8. You can replace Windows 8 with any single-control-entity. Heck, you could replace Windows 8 with Tesla and the Microsoft Store with Tesla-authorized garage.
"Authority The optional authority component may assist applications
in accessing the object named by an ni URI." They give this example:

ni://example.com/sha-256;f4OxZX_x_FO5LcGBSKHWXfwtSx-j1ncoSt3SABJtkGk

( https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-farrell-decade-ni-10#secti... )
I have an objection.

With the corporate arrangement, you are paying those additional 7 percentage points of tax for a big privilege, granted by the government: limited personal liability for the debts, losses, or contracts engaged by the company. That's a legal bonus you simply don't get when acting as a proprietor.
EFAX.com account suspended and still receiving demo documents.
My email is fritz@buckheadcs.com and I am unable to stop receiving these emails.

I signed up 2 months ago as a possible solution for dealing with paperwork.....I found paper worked equally as well for my applications and now I receive a request to sign demo documents weekly. There is no unsubscribe button. When I follow the links in the email it says account suspended.

EDIT:I just tried emailing "stop" to webmaster and postmaster@efax.com, both bounced
You might want to consider adding "Add to Readmill" buttons to the post-checkout page: https://readmill.com/developers/send-to-readmill

(and no, I'm not affiliated with them, I just think they've built a great platform)
I used CarWoo a couple months ago to buy a new Subaru. It worked fine. Since I wanted an unusual combination of color, trim, and options it was helpful that I could leave my request open for a while and let the offers roll in from multiple dealers until I found one that matched my requirements. Personally I cared more about getting exactly what I wanted than paying the lowest possible price.

They could do better in filtering our junk offers. I clearly stated that I wanted a silver car without a sunroof but still had dealers spamming me with offers for a red one with a sunroof or whatever.